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L. HETFIBLD. APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING GOAL lROMGARSl No. 255,169. Patented Mar.z1,1882.

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` Unteren STATES PATENT OEEICEa LEVI HETEIELD, or PLAINEIELD, NEW JERSEY.

APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING COAL FROM CARS.

SPECIFICATION formngpart of Letters Patent No. 255,169, dated March 21, 1882.`

` Application tiled December 31, 1881. (No modelo To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVI HETEIELD, a resident of Plainfield, county of Union, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Delivering Goal from Cars; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ot' reference marked thereon, making a partofthis specification.

This invention relates to apparatus for loading carts and other vehicles from railroad-cars.

It has for its object the division into any required quantities, as desired, and the delivery directly into carts -or other vehicles or receptacles, as needed, of the coal contained in a car, without manual laborin shoveling or handling the same, and without the need of the high and expensive trestle-work .required in the ordinary dumping and storage of coal from railway-cars.

5o at the required point.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of my apparatus, illustrating a car in position to be unloaded and a wagon in place to receive its load. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the lower portion of the side ofthe car, illustrating the combination therewith of the side boards inclosing the end spaces between the car and the track..

A is a hopper coal-car, fitted with bottom doors, B B', closed by means of chains b b, Fig. 2, drawn up by a crank and windlass, and preferably constructed in accordance with the specification ofthe Letters Patent No. 217,286, granted to me July 8, 1879.

The coaloar A is run upon a track, C, laid in theusual manner upon a low trestle-work, D D. This trestle-work need only be of suffi cient height to allow a wagon to drive under a screen and chute constructed to deliver the coal into the wagon-bed. The space between the rails upon the cross-ties of the trestle is loored over, and a comparatively narrow transverse opening, E, is left at a suitable point in said flooring.l Beneath this opening E a screen, F, is secured at a suitable inclination to constitute the bottom of a chute, which is properly inclosed, so as to deliver the coal flooring is controlled by a horizontal sliding The opening E in the gaie, Gr, which may be placed upon rollers, and which may be operated from the end of the trestle or other suitable point by means of a lever, H, or other equivalent appliance.

Upon .each side of the opening E are titted strips 'i fi z" fi', which form grooves to receive and retain the lower edges of side boards,JJ', adapted to stand verticallyin said grooves, and to be supported in an upright. position by means ofbrace-bars L L, hinged centrally to the upper edge of eac/lrboard, and extendingthence to a stay-block,l\ l\,secrel tmth'ei'lioriin'g at a proper distance from said upright boards. One of the side boards, J, is of such width as to till the space between the ilooring and one ot the doors, B, ofthe car. The other, J', is of such width as that when iitted under the opposite door, B', the door may drop down thereon far enough to permit a free discharge of coal from the car. The open door, resting upon this side board,'closes entirely the'space between the car and the ooring on that side, the space under the opposite door being closed by the side board, J. The openings between the bottom ofthe car and the ilooring at each end ot' the side boards areclosed by adjustable end pieces. The lower piece, M, is adapted to rest upon the floor against the rail, and isprovided with upright cleats m m, Fig. 2, adapted to afford support to thev superimposed pieces N N'. These superimposed pieces N N' are made of a triangular or wedge shape, so that when slid in endwise, one upon the other, upon the lower piece, M, they will adapt themselves to the space left between said lower piece, M, and the bottom of the car, whether it be more or less, and be thus ready for use with cars varying in height from the track. The side boards, J J', adjust themselves to the differences in the heights ofthe cars by variations of inclination,

the drawing Fig.1 illustrating them as applied v IOO are in position over the ehuteopening E. The wheels are then choeked by suitable blocks, the sidepieces,JJ/, inserted and braced in position, and the end pieces, M N N', slid into place so as to inclose the space underthe doors about the chute-opening;r E. It' now the door B be opened,it will drop upon the side pieee,J, and the coal from the car will till the inelosure over the chtite. A cart or u'agon being now driven under the chute, the gate G is opened andthe coal, falling through the opening upon the screen, will pass down over it, and, being thus cleaned in its course, will be delivered in good condition directly into the cart. So soon as the cart is loaded a further supply is shut oit' by closing the gate G, and the loaded wagon being driven out, another takes its place. ln this manner the entire load of coal is read ily and very rapidly delivered into the carts in quantities as required. The cost of storing, handling, and shoveling the coal two or three times is thus avoided, and the coal, direct from the mines in covered cars, is loaded u'p clean and unbroken, free from dust and dirt, with the utmost ease and expedition,\\ith out the expense of high trestles, large coal-bins, and extensive coal-yards.

That l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with an elevated rail- 3o way-track, a ooring between the rails of the track, anda suitable screen or chute arranged under the track to delivercoal from the flooring into the wagons or other receptacles beneath, ot removable side boards, J J', and end boards, M N N, adapted to inelose the space about the opening into the chute between the ooring and the bottoni of the ear standing upon the track, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The combination, with each other and with an elevated railway-track, a flooring laid between the rails of said track, a. coal-chute beneath said ooring, and an inelosure about the mouth of said chute above the Hooring, of 45 one or more gates or slides, G, adapted to control the opening into the chute, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereoflhave signed myname to this specification in the presence of two sub- 5o scribing witnesses.

LEVI HETFIELD.

Witnesses:

WM. B. MAXsoN, JOHN H. VAN WINKLE. 

